Want to search through, say, a directory full of log files for a specific message? PowerShell to the rescue!
PS C:\> get-item *.log | Select-String -Pattern "Race Condition" 12-19-2017 02.44.02 PM.log:93413:SIP/2.0 200 Race Condition
Subfolders too:
PS C:\> Get-ChildItem c:\<Path>\*.log -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern "Race Condition" Ongoing Support\20171011-SIP503s\Logs-20171219\12-19-2017 02.44.02 PM.log:93413:SIP/2.0 200 Race Condition
Back in 2014 I announced the relocation of greiginsydney.com to Azure. Today I can announce we’ve moved again – this time to Azure.
For the last few years we’ve been living on Azure’s version of WordPress as an “App Service” hosted in the West US Region. This choice of platform has to date necessitated the use of a third-party (in this case ClearDB) to host the WordPress database.
It’s an understatement to say that I’ve not found the blog’s performance anywhere near my expectation. Googling “slow WordPress on Azure” reveals this isn’t an issue unique to me, and none of the fixes offered in any of my occasional shopping expeditions improved matters:
Our December 2017 update – the first in 7 months – leaps the server from 6.0.9319.281 to 6.0.9319.510. It updates 7 components on my Standard Edition Front-End.
This update enables Location-Based Routing to support the Skype for Business mobile clients. It also fixes the following issues:
Continue reading ‘SfB 2015 Server Update CU6 – December 2017’ »
Our November update took us to 15.0.4981.1000 and today Kb 4011284 nudges us up a few builds to 15.0.4989.1000.
This update fixes the following issues:
Continue reading ‘Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – December 2017’ »
| Deliberately circumventing browser security is NOT a good idea. |
OK, with that mandatory common-sense warning out of the way, those of you who know why we’re doing this are welcome to continue reading.
Today was the *second* occasion in the last fortnight where I’ve needed to talk to a customer’s SBC that was still running a relatively ancient version of firmware – and none of my browsers would let me circumvent modern-day security practices to access these “unsecure” sites. The Catch-22 is of course that the only way to upgrade their inbuilt web-server to use currently secure protocols is via their present-day obsolete web-server, which your browser is “correctly” shielding you from.
These are the sorts of messages you’ll encounter if you try to browse to a Sonus or AudioCodes SBC that’s been neglected, languishing on old firmware, and unless you’re mighty lucky, you’re not going to get anywhere:
Can't connect securely to this page
This might be because the site uses outdated or unsafe TLS security settings. If this keeps happening, try contacting the website's owner.
Continue reading ‘Tricking Windows 10 into talking to an old SBC’ »
I hit a snag earlier this week when installing AudioCodes’ IP Phone Manager Express.
The installer adds the usual Windows Features/Roles – but it does so assuming the media is in D:\sources\sxs, and it’s not something you can change.
Rather than just remapping drives & folders when there was an opportunity for some PowerShell, I manually translated the DISM commands back into their PowerShell equivalents so I could easily install them myself. When I then re-ran the installer it found no additions were necessary and was able to continue on its merry way.
add-windowsfeature -source c:\temp\sxs -name net-framework-features,Web-WebServer,Web-Server,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Redirect,Web-App-Dev,Web-CGI,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Security,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Cert-Auth,Web-Url-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-IP-Security,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-DAV-publishing,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Scripting-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Service,Web-Mgmt-Compat,Web-Metabase,Web-WMI,Web-Lgcy-Scripting,Web-FTP-Server,Web-FTP-Service,Web-FTP-Ext,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-NET45,Web-AppInit,Web-WebSockets,Web-CertProvider,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
I hope this is helpful to someone in a similar situation.
25th November 2017. This is the initial post.
– G.
Earlier this year I looked in some depth at the Beta version of Landis Technologies’ “SEFAUtil Server”.
It’s since hit a formal “GA” milestone, and I’m pleased to see it’s a more stable platform as a result of its lengthy gestation.
If you’re not familiar with Microsoft’s “Secondary Extension Feature Activation Utility” for Lync and Skype for Business – or why there’s a burning need for third-party add-ons like SEFAUtil Server – have a read of the intro from my Installing SEFAUtil Server and pop back here when you’re done.
Continue reading ‘Review: SEFAUtil Server – Enterprise Edition’ »
Our October Security update took us to 15.0.4971.1000 and today Kb 4011255 jumps us up 10 builds to 15.0.4981.1000.
This update fixes the following issues:
Continue reading ‘Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – November 2017’ »
The screen-grabs here at greiginsydney.com are these days all captured & refined by TechSmith’s “Snagit” screen-capture utility. Prior to becoming an MVP I relied entirely on the free Windows “Snipping Tool”, but that all changed when TechSmith was kind enough to send me a complimentary copy of Snagit. It quickly became indispensable, and so I purchased a separate copy for my work PC.
Snagit gives me a lot of editing power in a small economical package. I love how what I call the “munching tool” (aka “cut out”) lets me imperceptibly remove white-space, or add tear-marks to show where I’ve removed part of an image for brevity. I can delete text (like an unwanted date-stamp) leaving only the background, blur sensitive details, highlight the important bits, and much more.
Compare an original with the edited version:
I was working on a Polycom VVX configuration file recently and it took me a while to find where the timezone cities were defined: all I had was a mysterious integer.
I found them in the PDF “3725-49078-018a-uc-software-skype-for-business-deployment-guide-5-6-0.pdf” but for future reference I decided to copy and re-post them here.
From the PDF: “The following two parameters configure a time zone location description for their associated GMT offset”
Here’s one in context (with Sydney showing in this example):
<device device.sntp.gmtOffsetcityID="113" device.sntp.gmtOffsetcityID.set="1" />
Continue reading ‘Polycom VVX & Trio Time Zone Location Description’ »